Molenaar spartiti per banda

An old Spanish dance accompanied by foot stamping provided for Sousa and for Sarasate, who arranged it as a showpiece for his own violin virtuosity. I saw its possibilities as a glittering showpiece f...

The number 2000 - to begin with - stands for the magic year, that is drawing near so swiftly. Another fact represented by this number is that this overture makes the two thousandth work published by M...

1) 'Jour de Fête.* A quiet sunday atmosphere on the Avenue Foch, a residental area for the well-to-do in Paris. It begins with full-soun­ding chords, with a wealth of added tones. It seems as if many...

I needed a new tune at trotting tempo to accompany a display at the 'Horse of the Year Show' for which my band plays every year. I couln't find one but managed to think of this one which fitted nicely...

Leroy Anderson (1908-1975) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. While studying at Harvard University he conducted the university symphonic band. In 1936 he was engaged as arranger with the famous 'Bo...

With this 'Air', the third part of his cantata about People going to church on Whitsuntide, the Dutch composer Pieter Goemans (Istambul, 1925) proves his talents as a composer go far beyond songs for...

Von Fremden Ländern und Menschen/Kuriose Geschichte/Musche Mann/Wichtige Begebenheit/Träumerei/Am Kamin/Der Dichter spricht

Wim Steyn made a very fine arrangement for wind band of the famous wedding march from the orchestral suite opus 21 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.

Diese reizende Dixieland Melodie garantiert Ihnen eine prächtige Apotheose für Ihres nächste Konzert.

The work opens with a theme in a folksong character: an introduc-tion in minor. Timpani and the low winds symbolise the Hungarian character and the never-ending struggle of the people of Hungary. Afte...

A couple of years ago Piet Daalhuisen and Marcel Peeters combined their talents to write the most successful band selection 'With a smile to the Classics'. Here is another work resulting from their co...

Der französiche Komponist Roger Roger ist schon bekannt wegen seiner Suite 'Music from the four Winds' (erst in den Vereinigten Staaten, später bei Molenaar verlegt). In der dreiteiligen Suite 'Americ...

Since the Soviet Union no longer seems to be that far away from our Western World, we are eager to know Russian music better. Of course, we do prefer the music by Russian composers (such as Salnikov's...

Back to the thirties... Since the Scott Joplin revival ragtime music has always been in. Revival Rag brings back to memory the music that was played during the Roaring Twenties in the U.S.A. That's wh...

Wedding Bells is a short Carillon Feature which Features the brass section of the band. The solo ensemble consists of three trumpets or cornets and three trombones. There is a central section to the w...

The beaches of Rio de Janeiro are almost as famous all over the world as the Brasilian music with its typical characteristics. The mixture of different races resulted not only in beautiful music but a...